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September 2011 Random Thoughts

Once a month or so, I clear out some of the content on my Running Commentary, Random Thoughts, and 12 Notes pages and place them here on the main page to make room for fresh content on those pages. This is the content from September 2011′s Random Thoughts. Enjoy!

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Sept 1st: Man, it was busy for a few hours at the job. Last day on this particular job though, they always try to squeeze the most out of you that they possibly can on that final day.

Sept 2nd: The Yankees have just moved into first place. So let’s anagram that: First Place/ Crap Filets/ Splice Fart/ It’s Elf Crap. Anagramming is always fun. Yankees in first place, just ahead of Crap Filets is more fun.

Plus, it’s more fun to write about that than to write about the fact that America created exactly zero jobs last month. Telling ya, these assholes don’t start hiring, they’re gonna have a full blown revolt on their hands. And no not the government, the corporations. They’re the assholes not hiring people, can’t blame government if the big gun employers would much rather work their current staffs to death than spend a few bucks and hire a few extra people, and make America and the economy stronger.

And yes, I just called the Boston Red SoxCrap Filets.

Sept 3rd: 14,000,000 people are out of work. The fed won’t help. The corporations won’t hire, they’re afraid of bringing their money to the states where it will be taxed. The President will give a speech meant to allay fears and bring hope to hopeful millions on Thursday. I personally don’t think it’ll matter. Not because he won’t say anything of worth, he will. What I think is that those who have a vested interest in seeing him fail will get their voices heard just as much as he will, dulling any positive effect.

Sept 4th: Nada

Sept 5th: My resume is updated, finally, it’s needed one for at least a few months now, which means that I can send out a fresh resume without having to worry about the yawning gap between jobs that existed there before. I have a number of jobs I’m going to send resumes to now. Maybe companies that ignored me before will take a second look at me now.

But first a sammich and some coffee. I’m hungry and I just came back from a grueling 10 mile hill run. Need fuel before I get back to looking for a job.

P.S. Sent 4 resumes, 2 to christie’s, 2 to other art houses.

Sept 6th: Happy to get a phone call from Christie’s today. Got an interview, on Thursday. With any luck I will get this (freelance) art handler job, and the nation will have one less person on unemployment. That’s how the unemployment issue gets resolved, one person at a time, and I’d be more than happy to remove myself from the list of those who require assistance to live in this clearly improperly functioning world.

Sept 7th: Rain, rain, go away, come on back when the ground dries the hell out. Srsly! I think we’ve had about 2 and a half feet of rain, or some such insane number. We really could use a friggin break from it.

Sept. 8th: It looks like I got a job today, I won’t say I’ve got it til I receive an offer, but I am expecting it, was told it should arrive within a week. Again it is a temp job. Again it is an on-call job. And it may take about 3 weeks to get all the paperwork taken care of, but it’s a job. I should really be happy though. The money when I work should be pretty damned good.

I will, after all, be working at Christie’s.

Pretty happy about that. Wanted this, really wanted this. Better to be a freelancer at a great place for good money, than being paid crap for crap work. Works for me. I just hope they expedite this as quickly as possible. The money situation here is really getting bad.

Sept 9th: The market tanked today, presumably because the rich bitches on Wall Street decided they don’t like paying their fair share like the president said, and pouted their way to a nearly 300 point loss. Makes me want to Anagram:Fucking Idiots/ Fuck It God, I Sin/ If Outing Dicks/ Dig Unfit Sicko/ Focusing It, Kid .

… OK it had to do with Eurozone crap as well. I have an agenda, and I wanted to anagram. Sue me.

Sept 10th: Nada… OK Not quite Nada, Not like I didn’t have any random thoughts today, I just never got to writing them down. Hey… wait a Minute… I just wrote that. Guess nada is in fact wrong! Go fig! That is awesomely awesome!

Sept 11th: Football, hockey and baseball as far as what I watched this day. Too damn many reminders of the events of 10 years ago out there for my liking. Media seems to almost fetishize the events of 9/11. Seems kinda creepy on their part. STOP OBSESSING DAMN YOU. You’ll freak out the easily freaked out people all over the nation. And we have a lot of those poor bastards now, leave ‘em be, they need a break. Poor sods.

Plus, the hockey, the Traverse City prospects tourney, has been a boatload of fun to watch. And the football was a big ball of WTF. Nothing I thought would happen happened, and the guys I thought would suck ALL had great days. Go fig. And the Yankees finally zarking won a game! LET’S GO YANKEES!

Sept 12th: Tom Brady threw for 517 yards. 517 friggin yards, including a 99 yarder to Wes Welker. I play in a league with my wife, Yahoo Fantasy football. I was winning, but she had both Brady and Welker, and Gronkowski. Going into Monday night, I was up by 30 or so points. By the end of the Patriots game I had lost by over 30 points! She whupped my butt! OH NOES! lulz.

And ya, there’s more going on than just fantasy sports. Rick Perry and his lunacy about Soc. Sec., the Jobs bill, Syria is still a hairy mess. I was just taken by how badly that one game did me in there.

Sept 13th: My left knee is absolutely kicking my ass. Damn thing keeps locking up on me, feels loose. I haven’t had problems this bad with this knee in years. This sucks. But to my credit I was still able to, through eating painkillers and a little patience, manage to get 7.6 miles in running today. Nice.

Sept 14th: Angel food ministries, a place I get food from once a month from on-line, and have since 2009, will not be doing food distribution this month. My wife did a little digging and it seems to be connected in some way to an investigation into improper use of funds on their part. Apparently this charity is in financial trouble, despite paying the family that runs it tons of money, and there have prior accusations of financial impropriety on their part before. Including firing people because there isn’t enough money coming in, and yet giving himself a raise.

Sept 15th: I’ve been keeping my eyes on the lockout over at Sotheby’s, because those guys gave me my first taste of freedom on the work-front, real honest to J.R. “Bob” Dobbs good people who deserve a break. And they aren’t getting it. Breaks my heart to see these guys being locked out of their jobs for 7 weeks, with no end in sight. I really hope things turn for these guys soon.

Sept. 16th: I got my paperwork from Christie’s today. I’ll be filling it out this weekend and getting it back to them just as soon as I can. It’s a “freelance” job, meaning I work when they need me, and don’t work when they don’t. But it’s busy season, so things should be jumping. I should be working full time until mid December at the very least. I hope. Wish me luck.

Sept. 17th: Dropped my cell phone while working yesterday. Dropped it into a toilet. A clean toilet, but a toilet nonetheless.

Joy! and other such statements.

It sat there for a while, unbeknownst to me, so the thing is probably toast. Fortunately my wife and I have a few older phones around here we can use. Tried one last night, and that phone was toast, and it took 45 minutes on the landline with sprint to figure it out. Just spent over 50 minutes on the landline trying to get a second one activated. The damn thing was so slow as to drive me AND the woman on the other end of the phone nuts. She handed me to someone else, who hung up on me.

Wouldn’t life be easier if we didn’t have these damn things in the first place?

Sept. 18th: Nada.

Sept. 19th: I took a drug test today, one that the company that wants to hire me as a temp asked me to take. No worries, the only drug I do now is Ibuprofen, and even there I do it in moderation. Sent a fax to them as well, with the signature on the pieces of paper that said I accepted the offer, and am allowing them to do a background check on me. Dislike that last bit, but companies are filled with idiocy of that variety, so I take it with a grain of salt. Getting closer and closer to working for good money again.

Still temp though, dammit. Ah well.

Sept. 20th: There is just not enough money in the bank. Gonna end up paying something late this month, and with the way things are going, it looks like it will be rent. Oh joy of joys.

I try dammit, I really do. Try to get work, try to pay my bills on time, but the lack of work, and the small amount of money I get from unemployment makes that impossible. I don’t blame anyone but myself though. Got myself here(kinda), I’ll get myself out(I hope.)

Sept. 21st: Yankees win, THEEEEEEEEEE YANKEES WIN! Swept two in a row from the Rays to claim the AL East crown. Dammit that was nice. At the beginning of the month the Red Sox were in first and people were talking about a Phillies/Red Sox world series. Now the Crap Filets(read above to figure it out) are battling for the wild card, and if their pitching keep going the way it is, they won’t make it. That gives me lulz.

Sept 22nd: Got asked to come into work by the people over at Kravet, after the assignment ended, the second time they’ve done that.

This time I don’t know that I can. I have things to do today, but they can be put off. The issue is, it will cost me money just to get in to do what they want me to do, but it’ll pay me less than sitting at home. It makes sense financially to sit home and get the extra days unemployment, it’ll pay more. But I hate not working. Hmmmmm….

They also want me in all of next week, and I am at this point waiting to hear back from the place that just hired me to freelance, that is paying more than 2x what Kravet is paying per hour, so I don’t want to commit to that either.

Decisions, decisions…

Sept 23rd: Had to decide against going to Kravet, as I am waiting on hearing from the other spot. And I had other things to do.

Sept. 24th: Just heard about some crap about some kids getting pepper sprayed at the occupy wall street thing. So watch the viddy. The cop that did it was apparently rogue, sprayed those kids for no reason, and got a cop as well. What an asshole! Someone’s gonna be doing desk duty for a while.

Sept 25th: Spent a lazy day watching football and baseball , worrying about my finances, and still not hearing about when to come in to my new job. Dammit these people sure are taking their damn sweet time with this shit. I want to go back to work.

I just have to be patient, just because I want and need something doesn’t mean they feel the same way about things.

Sept 26th: This occupy wall street thing is amazing. The more I see and hear about it the more I want to go. Looks like fun, looks like these people could really use some help, especially after the cops were such raging assholes at them. But they don’t need me, so I’ll sit here and make noise for’em. Better’n nothin. Might head out and go if I don’t hear from these idiots about work soon.

Sept. 27th: Nada from this job. So I called them, to find out what gives. Ends up the people in HR are dragging their feet, the boss man wants me in, but he can’t move until HR does. FUCK.

And what gives with the Yankees? I don’t mind making things hard for the Red Sox, but C’mon. These last 2 efforts looked horrible. They better put a better effort in tomorrow. Who wants to walk into the playoffs on a 4 game losing streak, especially with all 4 of those games being playoff contenders. Doesn’t look good I tell ya.

Finally heard from the guys at Sotheby’s. Kinda. Got an invite to a rally for the locked out Sotheby’s workers, on October 3rd. Might go if I’m not working by that point, and with the way these people are dragging their feet I might not be working next monday.

Sept. 28th: Most amazing final day of the regular season for major league baseball in memory. Red Sox, at the beginning of the month were in first place. Now? Out of the playoffs. Nice. Orioles made’em look horrible. Carl Crawford gets the goat horns in the game, not catching the ball in the bottom of the ninth, but Francona lost control of that team long before Crawford fucked up. lulz. Braves were almost as bad.

Sept. 29th: I want to go to Occupy wall street, but I don’t think I’ll be able to. Things to do. I have to go buy clothes for the job I start on Monday. Need black shirts it’s apparently the uni. Black shirt, black pants, black shoes. Fatass in black, that’ll be me.

Sept. 30th: Got into a twitter war with some jackass from bigjournalism, that bastion of conservative values (i.e. fuck the poor) today. Whooped up on him. Dumbass was not ready for someone on the left who is as clearly belligerent as I am. Belligerent and smarter. He was just not ready for someone who could stand toe to toe with him and spar on an equal footing. I’ll try to get him again soon. He’s an editor and story writer there. Note I didn’t say journalist. They don’t have journalists there, just fabricators of propaganda.

He needed to enlist several friends to fight his battles for him, and I fought them off as well. Easily I might add.